Minor setback!

Everybody has them and I'm no different. Frequently with HCG, the Time of Month (TOM) can cause a setback. This morning, I was up 157.4 after being down to 156.6 yesterday. It can be pretty frustrating to work really hard to stick to a diet only to experience a setback, but I think that it's really important to keep the ultimate goal in mind and soldier on. My ultimate goal is 140 and it's so close that I can taste it!

This weekend, I had a wonderful conversation with a fellow mom on my son's baseball team. She said that she was going to try the HCG diet and expressed her frustration with other diets that she had tried that did not produce long-lasting results. I can totally relate. I only tried a million different diets and while I would lose 10 lbs in the short term, I would gain 15-20 after I stopped whatever I was doing. With this diet I know (after going on maintenance for 5 weeks without gaining any weight back) that this is long term change for me.

It can also be frustrating living in a house where nobody else had really had to live with weight issues. My husband, while SUPER supportive, has never had a weight problem. Sure, he gained weight with me through all of my pregnancies, but I think something happens to a woman's metabolism when she goes through a hormone trauma like childbirth. He understands my weight struggle like he understood post-partum depression. He could tell me what he thought I should do to snap out of it, but without understanding the changes that were going on in my body, that advice was futile.

So, while the setback this morning was frustrating, I am still keeping my eye on the prize and making sure that I do what it takes to reach that magic number of 140:-)

Maggie